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W. RUBEL.

PIPE CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2. 1911.

Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

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PIPE-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1919.

Application filed November 2, 1917. Serial No. 199,861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM RUBEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Flint, in the county of Genesee and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Pipe-Cleaners, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to smoking pipes and has more especial referenceto an improved cleaner therefor.

The invention has for its principal object to provide a smoking pipecleaner capable of passing a swab or like implement through the smokepassage of a pipe stem in order that all foreign matter therein can bereadily and thoroughly removed.

Another and equally important object of the invention is to provide apipe cleaning device having means thereon for engaging and removing thecleaning swab from the stem of a pipe.

The improvements in the details and arrangement of parts will beapparent from an inspection 0 the accompanying drawings, in connectionwith the specific description hereinafter contained, and wherein thepreferred embodiment of the invention is disclosed for the purpose ofimparting a full understanding of the same.

In the drawings gigure 1 is a perspective of the cleaner, an

,Fig. 2 is a fragmental perspective of one end of the same.

Having more particular reference to the drawings, the improved cleaningdevice comprises an elongated body portion 1 formed of either flexibleor pliable material and having one end thereof flattened and bifurcatedas at 2, while the remaining end is bent to provide a hook element 3.Formed in the intermediate portion of the body 1 is a loop 4, the sameserving as means to permit the hanging of the cleaner upon a suitablesupport when the same is not in use.

In using the improved cleaner, a cleaning swab 5 formed of soft cord orlike material is doubled upon itself and engaged in the bifurcatedportion 2 of the body 1, whereupon the same is then passed through thesmoke passage of the stem of the pipe which is to be cleaned. When theswab has been passed into the pipe a portion thereof is wound about theloop 4 and, confined be tween the latter and the straight body portion1, is securely held in a taut condition between the bifurcated terminalof the body and the loop 4 as it is worked back and forth in the smokepassage of the pipe stem, thereby removing all foreign matter, such asnicotin and the like from the passage. To facilitate the pulling andpushing of the swab through the pipe stem, the portion f the body 1lying intermediate the hooked terminal 3 and the coil 4 is grippedbetween the fingers, the latter being prevented from undue slippingowing to their confinement between the coil and hook.

From the foregoing, it will be readily understood that with my improvedcleaning element, I provide an extremely simple and efiicient device forremoving the gummy substance lodged in smoke passages of pipe stems,commonly called nicotin and all other foreign substances therefrom in anextremely rapid and eflicient manner. Due to the nature of the materialfrom which the cleaning element is formed. the same may be passedthrough either curved or straight stems.

Manifestly, the construction shown is capable of considerablemodification and such modification as is within the scope of my claim, Iconsider within the spirit of my invention.

I claim A pipe cleaning element including a straight body portion havingone end there of flattened and bifurcated to receive the bight portionof a doubled cleaning swab and having the remaining end hooked, theintermediate portion of the body bemg looped whereby the swab ma bewound thereon and confined between t 'e loop and the body portion toretain the portion of the swab extending between the loop and thebifurcated terminal in a taut condition.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature hereto.

WILLIAM RUBEL.

